A document published on Wind Energy Update’s website on offshore wind farm risk mitigation attracted record interest and demonstrated the need for information on past and present risk in the offshore wind turbines.

United Technologies will sell its rocket engine and wind power businesses to help finance its $16.5 billion purchase of aerospace supplier Goodrich Corp.

The site for building a new wind farm in Azerbaijan was chosen on the basis of wind energy atlas, prepared by the German development bank KfW.

Located in northern Morocco, to the East of Fes, the Taza wind power project will be equipped with 50 wind turbines made by Alstom of 3 Megawatts each.

The three projects encompass a wind farm, a photovoltaic (PV) solar power plant and a flare gas reduction project.

The Borkum wind farm, situated 45 km away from the northern coast of the Borkum Island, is currently under construction close to “alpha ventus”, the first German offshore wind power plant.

The European Parliament voted today for the first time in favour of setting a binding renewable energy target for 2030.

North America was the third place last year in terms of installed wind farm capacity with a total of 52,184 MW, according to the latest annual statistics recently released by the Global Wind Energy Council.

SolarReserve and Saguache County continued negotiations in the company?s proposed concentrating solar thermal tower project during a work session in the courthouse.

While no new concentrating solar thermal power (CSP) was brought online in 2011, a total of 10 concentrated solar power PV (CPV) projects came online.

The Washington Times was in high dudgeon yesterday, lashing out at a series of federal programs aimed at promoting clean energy sources such as wind energy and solar power.

The Houston Chronicle yesterday became the latest in a steadily growing number of newspapers to endorse an extension of wind power’s primary incentive, the federal wind energy Production Tax Credit (PTC).

Siemens to invest EUR 24mn in wind turbines production in Serbia. The plant produces more than 150 wind farm generators per month.

OCI Solar Power will operate Vineland Solar IV and sell the electricity it produces to the Vineland Municipal Electric Utility.

The only route open to Europe?s wind energy industry is to continue internationalising its activities by entering new markets and strengthening its positions in the emerging markets.

The country, which only had one single 18-MW wind farm in 2009, had 982 MW of installed wind turbines capacity by the end of 2011 according to the Romanian wind energy association.